Tiggy Johnson (editor, Page 17)  Selecting my favourite short stories is too difficult a task, partly because I’m not much of a re-reader, so this is just a snapshot of what I think today, this moment, and is likely to change next week, or even tomorrow. I’ve tried to keep it brief, though would really […]

Georgia Behrens is overawed by the next star of “The Short Story” panel, Pip Smith. When she first decided to host a story-telling night in the front room of her Newtown flat, I can’t really imagine that Pip Smith thought she was going to land herself a small literary empire. With the aims of a) […]

Georgia Behrens profiles the star of our upcoming panel, “The Short Story”: Bronwyn Mehan Boogie-board enthusiast, ukulele student and crossword connoisseur Bronwyn Mehan is a woman of many talents. She reads, she writes and she edits. She blogs, she tweets, she road tests “software for novelists”. And, most importantly for our purposes, she runs Spineless […]

  Favourite Australian Short Stories by Laurie Steed   This list is personal rather than exhaustive, and with more time and space I’d include stories from Tim Richards, Josephine Rowe, Murray Bail, Elliott Perlman, Henry Lawson, Tara-June Winch, Nam Le, Paul Mitchell, Joshua Lobb, Chloe Walker, Louise Swinn, Steven Amsterdam, Peter Farrar and many more. […]

Georgia Behrens writes about her salvation: the short story As anyone who has read a newspaper column in the last 10 years will know, citizens of the 21st century have a short attention span. Gone are the days, generic columnist bemoans, when we’ll settle down with a good book or literary journal for a few […]

Though they’re faster (to read) than a speeding bullet and have been written by many of literature’s greatest names, the short story is somewhat of a minority interest.In 2004, a UK Arts Council survey found that less than half of self-described “medium” readers “sometimes” picked up a book of short stories. Here at the NSW […]

Georgia Behrens leaps to the defence of the beleaguered short story. For too long, the short story has been condemned as the novel’s poorer, uglier, less-charismatic cousin. It has been thought of by many as the Mr Collins to the novel’s Mr Darcy: well intentioned, yes; entertaining, certainly- but altogether lacking the depth, devastating good […]